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ANNOUNCE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Announce publicly or officially

Example:

The President declared war

Synonyms:

announce; declare

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "announce" is one way to...):

say; state; tell (express in words)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "announce"):

promulgate (put a law into effect by formal declaration)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They announce that there was a traffic accident

Derivation:

announcement (a formal public statement)

announcement (a public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen)

announcer (reads news, commercials on radio or television)

announcer (someone who proclaims a message publicly)

annunciatory (relating to the act of announcing or being announced)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Foreshadow or presage

Synonyms:

announce; annunciate; foretell; harbinger; herald

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "announce" is one way to...):

tell (let something be known)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make known; make an announcement

Example:

She denoted her feelings clearly

Synonyms:

announce; denote

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "announce" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "announce"):

denounce (announce the termination of, as of treaties)

meld (announce for a score; of cards in a card game)

report (announce one's presence)

report (announce as the result of an investigation or experience or finding)

blazon out; cry (proclaim or announce in public)

trump; trump out (proclaim or announce with or as if with a fanfare)

blare out; blat out (announce loudly)

call out (call out loudly, as of names or numbers)

advertise; advertize; publicise; publicize (call attention to)

post (publicize with, or as if with, a poster)

sound (announce by means of a sound)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

announcer (reads news, commercials on radio or television)

announcer (someone who proclaims a message publicly)

annunciatory (relating to the act of announcing or being announced)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Give the names of

Example:

He announced the winners of the spelling bee

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "announce" is one way to...):

identify; name (give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

announcer (someone who proclaims a message publicly)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Egypt authorities announced Saturday that archaeologists had discovered two small ancient tombs in Luxor, a southern city.

(Discovery of Two Tombs Dating Back 3,500 Years Announced in Egypt, VOA)

“‘Answers to the name of Buck,’” the man soliloquized, quoting from the saloon-keeper’s letter which had announced the consignment of the crate and contents.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

A team of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Shanghai, China have announced the first-ever cloning of a primate from post-embryonic cells, namely two macaque monkeys.

(Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai, Wikinews)

Earlier this year Tesla’s founder Elon Musk announced that a new long-haul truck would be revealed in September but did not mention plans to make it self-driving.

(Tesla to Test Self-driving Electric Trucks, VOA News)

"I'm goin' to tell Bernard all about it," she announced, when she was leaving.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then it would be time for me to announce that I was still in the land of the living.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When, therefore, he suddenly announced his intention of setting out for the scene of the drama it was only what I had both expected and hoped for.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I have come for my courage," announced the Lion, entering the room.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

These mismatched hares showed up at the same time that climate modelers were announcing consistent and drastic decreases in seasonal snowfall across the Northern Hemisphere.

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)

The intelligence, which had been so anxiously announced to her, she was now to be anxiously announcing to another.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)